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Over the course of several months in 2011, IDC conducted a research study to identify the opportunities and challenges to adoption of a new technology that changes the way in which traditional business solutions are implemented and used. The results of the study are presented in this white paper.

This IDC study represents the vendor assessment model called the IDC MarketScape. This research is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the characteristics that explain a vendor's success in the marketplace and help anticipate the vendor's ascendancy. The study assesses the capability and business strategy of 12 of the top enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) vendors.

This IDC study represents the vendor assessment model called the IDC MarketScape. This research is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the characteristics that explain a vendor's success in the marketplace and help anticipate the vendor's ascendancy. The study assesses the capability and business strategy of 12 of the top enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) vendors. This evaluation is based on a comprehensive framework and a set of parameters expected to be most conducive to success in providing enterprise WLAN solutions, during both the short term and the long term. As the enterprise WLAN market is highly competitive and relatively mature, all vendors performed relatively well in the study.

Organizations increasingly require IT infrastructures that support the speed at which their businesses must operate through simplicity, efficiencies, agility, and strong performance. Hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, which enable organizations to minimize or nearly eliminate inefficiencies and complexity associated with maintaining storage and compute silos, have emerged as a strong potential solution for such organizations. IDCís research demonstrates that organizations running workloads on Nutanix solutions such as Dell XC are benefiting are benefiting from cost and staff efficiencies, the ability to scale their infrastructure incrementally, very high resiliency, and strong application performance. This is helping interviewed Nutanix solutions customers better meet business challenges and has led many of them to establish plans for expanding their hyperconverged workload environment with Nutanix solutions.

"Answers to five questions that are top-of-mind for infosec leaders today.
The challenge of secure DevOps is top of mind for many infosec and IT leaders. To help you understand the latest trends, Tenable reached out to Christina Richmond, Program Director for IDCís Security Services
Research Group, for her answers to the following five questions:
1. How do organizations ensure that the security team adapts seamlessly to development processes and tools to create a cohesive program?
2. What are some common mistakes you see companies make when attempting to integrate their DevOps and security processes?
3. How can security leaders assist organizations with making the transition to secure DevOps?
4. In the world of agile methodologies and DevOps, how do security teams need to evolve to be more effective in managing cyber risk?
5. What are some examples of secure DevOps principles among cloud native technologies?
Written for infosec leaders responsible for integrating security int

IDC's research shows that, worldwide, over 70% of enterprise cloud users currently rely on multiple clouds (public and/or private) to support a wide range of applications and workloads. Efficient management of these resources depends on IT operations and DevOps teams having access to consistent, accurate infrastructure performance monitoring data and reporting that span the full set of on-premise cloud infrastructure and public cloud IaaS services. CA Technologies recently announced new capabilities for CA Unified Infrastructure Management (CA UIM) that allow the product to more fully address the monitoring needs of complex multicloud infrastructure as part of delivering on CA's vision to fully enable the agile DevOps in the application economy.

IDC's research shows that, worldwide, over 70% of enterprise cloud users currently rely on multiple clouds (public and/or private) to support a wide range of applications and workloads. Efficient management of these resources depends on IT operations and DevOps teams having access to consistent, accurate infrastructure performance monitoring data and reporting that span the full set of on-premise cloud infrastructure and public cloud IaaS services. CA Technologies recently announced new capabilities for CA Unified Infrastructure Management (CA UIM) that allow the product to more fully address the monitoring needs of complex multicloud infrastructure as part of delivering on CA's vision to fully enable the agile DevOps in the application economy.

IDCís research has consistently shown that organizations can leverage converged infrastructure as a cost-effective, efficient, and high-performing platform to support VCC environments. IDC recently interviewed 16 organizations running various workloads on Vblock Systems from the Converged Platforms and Solutions Division of Dell | EMC, including 5 organizations using Vblock Systems as a converged platform for their VCC operations.

The following questions were posed by Microsoft's manufacturing team to Robert Parker, group vice president at IDC Manufacturing Insights, and Kimberly Knickle, research vice president at IDC Manufacturing Insights, on behalf of Microsoft's customers.

This IDC Business Value Executive Brief leverages IDC's research into the value of cloud-based application development and integration solutions, including solutions such as IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) on cloud.

IDCís research shows enterprises around the world are using multicloud strategies
to optimize the performance of modern and existing legacy applications running
on-premises, in public cloud services, and on legacy systems. In the early days of
enterprise cloud adoption, many organizations focused their cloud strategies on
enabling net-new cloud-native applications written to take advantage of dynamic cloud
infrastructure and pay-as-you-go consumption-based cost models. Early success with
these implementations is convincing more and more enterprises to expand their cloud
footprint and to migrate existing applications to cloud in order to enhance end-user
experiences, optimize cloud resource utilization and costs, and create a more flexible
and agile business environment.

IDC Research shows that manufacturers worldwide are rapidly embracing new technologies to transform their business models and operations to improve agility, customer engagement, profit and sustainable competitive advantage.

IDCís research shows that interviewed organizations capture significant value by investing in Red Hat JBoss
solutions rather than using unsupported community software.
Stated differently, these organizations are avoiding significant potential hidden costs of using alternative
unsupported community software in terms of:

New report issued by Fortrex, Emagined Security and Solidcore reveals the cost of PCI compliance is justified. These PCI requirements exist to protect sensitive data - yet, research indicates that these are among the least satisfied requirements across Level 1 merchants, with almost 40% non-compliance.

In this IDC Analyst Connection, NetApp posed a number of questions to Ashish Nadkarni, research director of IDC's Storage Systems research practice, on clustered storage and why it matters; how firms are using it; and key considerations when evaulating systems.

In this IDC Analyst Connection, NetApp posed a number of questions to Ashish Nadkarni, research director of IDC's Storage Systems research practice, on clustered storage and why it matters; how firms are using it; and key considerations when evaulating systems.

This IDC Executive Brief uses recent research and IDC thinking to outline some of the challenges facing client computing, security, and compliance teams. In particular, it outlines how many of these challenges can be addressed through the deployment of Windows 10. It then looks at how well current hardware takes advantage of these core functions and features, concluding that for many organizations their current approach to hardware may well fall short of expectations.

This IDC whitepaper (including the Dell PC Deployment Optimization Model) contains research that helps CIOs map out a plan to reduce their organizations' PC deployment costs while deploying more quickly and with less disruption to staff.

This paper offers IDC's quantitative and qualitative research and perspective for examining the challenges and costs of PC deployment, as well as the benefits of automating deployment processes. The paper also looks at the Dell Deployment Optimization model and the role of the DAD solution in this important market.